Ermionida

A development company has announced plans to construct a €475-million "ultra-luxury" tourist resort in the western Peloponnese.

The Hydra Rock company, which is chaired by billionaire shipping magnate Ioannis Vardinogiannis, submitted the plans to Enterprise Greece with the intention that it be deemed a strategic investment

Authorities have filed charges of simple bodily harm, threats, and violations of weapon laws against two minors arrested on Tuesday evening in Ermioni, a small port town on the Argolida peninsula in the Peloponnese.

According to police, the minors allegedly threatened and assaulted another minor with a sharp object in the courtyard of a school complex.

A 77-year-old woman's body was recovered from sea in the Ermioni area of Argolida, southern Greece on Tuesday. 

According to the Greece Coast Guard, the woman was transferred to a local clinic were she was pronounced dead. 

The cause of her death has yet to be determined.

The improved offer by the only candidate for the purchase of the state's 623,000-square meter property in the Ververonta area near Porto Heli in the Peloponnese was also judged to be too low.

This was the decision by the TAIPED board, putting an end to the second attempt in the last decade to utilize the property, advertised as even having the potential to develop a small airport.

Porto Heli in the Peloponnese has drawn intense investor interest, to the point of raising concerns of overdevelopment, balanced by expectations of profitable growth.

An incident of animal killing has been documented in the northern Peloponnese resort of Ermioni.

As reported by the public broadcaster ERT, a 75-year-old man used a rifle to shoot and fatally wound a shepherd dog.

Consequently, he was apprehended following a report made by a 42-year-old resident from the same village. Moreover, the rifle and two cartridges were confiscated.

A municipal court in the town of Nafplio in the Peloponnese in southern Greece has found a 40-year-old cleric from Ermionida guilty of sending lewd video material to a 13-year-old, in a case that shocked the nation when it was first publicized a few weeks ago. 

The Amanzoe hotel in Kranidi is on fire

Everty, the real estate arm of US investment group YNV, is planning to invest 100 million euros in the Greek property market.

Its aim is to acquire a portfolio of assets in the office market, as well as in the hospitality and residential sectors, with an emphasis on luxury holiday villas.

One hundred and seventy-seven residents from the small town of Kranidi, southern Greece, who were tested for the novel coronavirus came back negative, according to state-run broadcaster ERT on Thursday morning.

The tests wre ordered by health authorities after they discovered a cluster of coronavirus infections at a local facility housing refugees earlier this week.